Memcached object deserialization

Question

If an object serialized using ruby and pushed into memcache can it be deserialized using another language like C# (using memcache client)?

Answer 1

That depends on whether you serialized it using a serialization format for which a .NET implementation of a deserializer exists.

If there exists a deserializer, then you can.

If there doesn't exist a deserializer, then you can't.

Of course, if there doesn't exist a deserializer yet, you can still write one yourself, or hire someone to do it. Depending on the serialization format, it may be easier or harder to do that. JSON is fairly language-neutral, and thus trivial, Ruby Marshal, Python Pickle, Java Serialization, are fairly closely tied to the language, and thus much harder.